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Maybe its just the shot angles they showed back here in El Paso
The broadcasts always seem to show the visitor's side's angle, so yeah I get where you're coming from then
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120 team league.
thoughts?
Round-robin schedule? Top 64 records go to a playoff?
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Dallas is a focal point for UTEP's recruiting. You would have to think they would really like to have games in the area. By the way, whenever they play at SMU there is usually more Orange than Blue and Red
As someone who was actually at the game this year, no. It was at best 75/25 SMU/UTEP. Still very impressive showing for UTEP fans - they bring the most amount of fans outside of TCU. I'm from El Paso and root for UTEP too, but let's be truthful here.
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Hard to say CUSA is beating the Big East to the punch with Temple when Temple was in discussion for the latest expansion spot but was once more veto'd by 'Nova.
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SMU2006, good post. I've been posting and lurking here for a while now. Mostly because my younger brother got a full ride to UNT (and had shown interest to UNT for a year now, and my family doesn't live anywhere near Dallas). So I've kind of been rooting for UNT in football and basketball. I took my brother to UNT on a campus tour, hell I enjoyed the hell out of it. It's got the type of student population that him and I can relate to (at SMU I'm usually chuckling at a lot of the students there). So even with me being pro-UNT, I still find it somewhat funny/vexing that everyone here seems to be gunning at SMUt any time they have the chance. Maybe with these schools scheduling each other soon, there will be a better rivalry. THe SMU/TCU games are some of the most fun games to attend, it would be cool if we can get that going with UNT.
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Any truth to the rumor that he left because Craig James killed five backup quarterbacks while at SMU?
That is always a possibility
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There's some noted animosity between June and Padron. It's been going on behind the scenes for a while now. And this move might have more to do with the prospect of Conner Preston (QB with potential who red shirted this past year) than it does with Gilbert. Who knows, but SMU got stacked (by mid-major standards) at QB recently. I don't blame Padron for wanting to get a chance elsewhere.
And for those not in the know (quite a few here judging by posts, but I don't expect you guys to be in on SMU football), Padron has been injured for the majority of the year. There's no doubt in my mind that he would have replaced JJ McDermott had he had the opportunity. Say what you want about SMU and our program, but Padron is talented and you guys should make a push for him.
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One of the things SMU folks always say is how well known they're known nationally and worldwide and how big their brand is. This is a first that I've heard an SMU person say something like this. So why have the need to expand your brand?
Then whatever pony you talked to is an idiot. Head over to our boards and you'll see most of us talking about what we can to do market ourselves not just in the country, but in the freakin' DFW area too. We were a recognized brand in the 80s and before then, but most people in their teens to their mid-30s dont know anything about SMU unless they're from Dallas. Anyway, I know I always enter these threads to read up on what UNTers are saying, and I end up replying to something that has little to do with the OP, sorry for further derailment of the conversation!
For what it's worth, I hope UNT manages to benefit from the latest conference reshuffling.
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Working on the SMU sidelines for the past 3 years I have come away very impressed with Adrian Klemm. The guy joined June's staff a few years back as an unpaid assistant and very quickly turned into an outstanding OL coach and his recruiting ability has been award winning. His in game adjustments and ability to get through to his linemen was very noticeable from drive to drive. He turned a not that great OL into a solid one in very short order.
After winning a few SB's withe Pats, getting great D1 assistant experience under a seasoned and well respected head coach, and showing the ability to land recruits out of state - AK will be a head coach down the road if he wants it. Great dude and easily the most impressive coach on June's staff. Wish him all the best at UCLA.
Go Mean Green!
I'm not sure about some of that stuff. AK is a great guy. The players love him, and we all know he can recruit his ass off (even out recruit USC and UCLA at times). But I doubt his actual coaching abilities at the moment (as in a major coordinating position). That OL littered with seniors looked far from impressive. We also have very little knowledge as to how he can manage with x's and o's. He may turn out to be a genius, or another dud. I am saddened to see him go as a recruiter, but I wouldn't be so fast to name him a head coach (let alone an OC). Time will tell though.
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From an SMU fan, what would you want... Welcome him back with open arms, promote Klemm or get another coach
That's the thing, it's very complicated. At this point though, if I was given the responsibility to sort this out I would welcome June back for one last year (last year in CUSA). I'll get him to bring in the amazing 2012 recruiting class he has under his belt. Meanwhile I'll be hunting for a big name coach, someone like Major Applewhite or even Jim Tressel (go big or go home/become a bottom dweller in the Big East right off the bat). I'll also be talking with Klemm and let him now that I'm committed to him and would promote him to OC next year (since June doesn't really have an OC). That way Klemm can actually get some good coaching experience in him and could perhaps later be promoted to HC in some years in case he turns out to be a great coordinator.
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They want the logo to appear "right side up" on TV (and home fans want the same). Even against crummy teams SMU will pull the 15k "loyal" fans to make the home side pretty full (this game was an exception for the previously noted reasons). Where SMU falls way short is packing the visitor side (which is shown more on TV). SMU should pack the stadium and not depend on a visiting team to do so; however, most games this year had been 20-25k and that's a decent start. Starting next year, bringing teams like Baylor, TCU, Boise, Houston, Air Force, Cincy, etc. to campus will help a bunch with #'s.
Good luck Green.
Agreed, that "visitor's side" should still be 75% SMU fans. Instead it's an empty, lonely, and cold valley. When we bring in better competition, the lackadaisical SMU fan will start showing up. Either way though, the SMU athletics brand is damaged goods in DFW. 20 years of irrelevancy will not be remedied by 3 no-name bowl appearances. If we pull a Houston type of season and still are bringing in less than 20K, then by all means persecute us.
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I hate having to say this because I don't want it to seem like I'm ignoring the HUGE attendance issues we have, but that image is like many others. It's being taken from the side of the stadium where most fans are. The opposite side is usually a mix of the student section and the opponents' fans. The media always has the cameras on our fans' sides so it looks like a dreadfully empty stadium. While it is a pathetic turn out, there are probably about ten thousand on the western side of the stadium alone. This was the same issue we had at the UCF game. Either way, whether we have 8,000 fans or 15,000 fans, that sucks and the team deserves better. While it was a crap showing by our fans, it was still much more than 1,000
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NIU is in Rockford, which IIRC, is like saying Baylor has the DFW Market. I think that's comparable.
You really can't argue against NIU's Chicago market and at the same time assume the DFW market with UNT.
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The interesting questions is what will the Big East divisions be if they add BYU.
Would they really spit up Lville and Cincy into different divsion.
Big East
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BYU, Boise State, Air Force, SMU, Houston, Louisville
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Navy, UCF, USF, UConn, Rutgers, Cincy
The plan is to have another West partner for Boise and BYU. That way Louisville and Cincinnati stay together in the East (where they belong). San Diego State is now all over the rumor mill. I'm glad that the Big East's western expansion allows SMU to go AQ, but now the conference might have a team on the Pacific Coast. So much for the word East
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The earthquake must not have wanted to waste its power on an SMU fan....albeit a reasonable one...and yes, for the purposes of this post, your fiance isn't an SMU fan.
Totally right, she's a UTA alum
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I didn't, but my fiance two feet away felt it and freaked out. How the hell does that happen?
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I've fallen prey to reading their message board...more so recently. Recently, the fascination(for me) has been to read the thoughts of those that are moving up. Find out what that's like.
The fact that they keep kicking us while we are down speaks volumes. Yes, we've got goldenpony and comet that come over here and atleast don't stomp on our heads over there... they seem decent enough. Even offering up words of encouragement. To them I say thank you. That is classy, and I'm sorry for not accepting your words at face value...
I personally am going to make it a point to never visit over there again. I've never posted over there, and I would suggest that everybody on this board NEVER POST THERE AGAIN. Just leave them be. When we play them in a couple of years, who knows what the situation will be. We may be better... we may be the same. who knows... they could be down with bad win/loss records over the next season or so, or...they could be killing it. The bottom line is, if you go over there read and/or post, you are asking for their venom. DON'T DO IT. We should NOT care what they think.
This is our domain here. This is our safe haven. Lets stay here and enjoy the positives we have now. Like it or not, we have to be patient(yet again) in an impatient/knee jerk/'fix it yesterday' world. In the mean time, we just need to keep our heads low and work on building a fun atmosphere around our athletic programs as alums. We know we love our university. We want SOOOOO much to see good things out of it. Leave the SMU people to themselves. The other universities that have moved up have handled it better than them... I'm sure other fanbases have handled it worse... whatever.
Now lets focus and kick the ever living sh!t out of the bye week. I know I will personally commit to having a touchdown beer every 15 minutes starting at 6:00 pm this Saturday...and won't finish until about 9:45'ish that evening. By my beer count, we will be winning 63 - 0 before I start taking a knee on the td beers. WHO'S WITH ME?????
If it was't for the fact that I'm an SMU person, I don't think I would find ponyfans a very fun place to go to if I were a UNT guy. A lot of the time they joke around over there, but many times they're very serious in their derisive nature towards UNT. I find that to be completely unjustified and comes from a sense of natural entitlement but also fear of losing to UNT. SMU people just seem to be a cockier bunch (justified or unjustified) than the normal college football fan. Don't blame you guys one bit for being resentful of our fans.
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That was a dumb post by SMT. Nothing to see here really.
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I'm not a believer that SMU alumns as a group share your perspective on things. I've seen too many notes and heard too many things to the contrary to really accept this as being the pulse of SMU alumns. If you read ponyfans.com for more than 5 minutes, you know where we stand in the eyes of the SMU faithful.
This wreaks of, "we got what we finally wanted, and now lets play nice with the less fortunate since we now have widened the gap." I'm sorry if I don't take your words at face value.
We both post on ponyfans, and no, we're not all like that.
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Pretty sad when an AD at a school like UTEP sounds like they don't even realize we exist. Yes, they have their BBall championship from way back when they wholeheartedly embraced breaking the color barrier, and yes they get nice attendance from being the only game around for many hundreds of miles, but that place is very unimpressive to me. I once lived there and it's kind of a strange town. Even stranger now that you cannot even go have fun in Juarez unless you enjoy being kidnapped or murdered. Don't know why any recruit outside of the area would want to commit to playing in El Paso these days.
I lived in El Paso too for many years. That place has a ton of charm and personality in my opinion, especially compared to other places I've been. That city will embrace UTEP sports whenever they're doing well. It's not nearly as bad as you're making it out to be in my opinion.
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Big East will only lose from this scenario.
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Well current reports are now showing that Louisville is lobbying hard for that Big XII spot and might be able to kick out WVU. WVU fans are now on suicide watch. This is ridiculous.
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Moral of the story, pick your college based on your professional aspirations and the program geared toward them.
Amen, that's all that should really matter.
I think this about sums it up
in Mean Green Basketball
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Not really, the following have higher standards:
Rice (21%)
UT (47%)
Baylor (47%)
UTD (49%)
TCU (52%)
SMU (59%)
UNT (65%)
Though UNT does seem to be noticeably ahead of Texas Tech, UTA, UTSA, Texas State, UTEP, Houston, etc.